My Saturday Six

Weekend Six...

Ah, Er... SEVEN

* Went out Friday for Thai
* Went out Saturday to Cattleman's (we hadn't been in years)
* Volunteered at a kite festival and got chased by rabid cows
* Made strawberry curd to save for a future dessert
* Got email from best friend who got chucked by a camel while visiting The Pyramids and broke several ribs and punctured a lung
* Currently making sourdough bread
* Finishing a yummy sock for little sis

 
I've been wanting to try this one, but it's a little over my budget, and I've been very happy with

Sombras Del Sol. Maybe one of these days....

 
I've only tried one brand (can't remember the name), and found it too dry. In general,

would you say Pinot Grigio is drier than Sauvignon Blanc or could it be just the brand I tried? I know it's hard to generalize, since each producer is uniquely different.

 
Those camels are mean varmits, especially when their drivers are only interested in who is going to

pay for the pictures they take. I guess they didn't like the fact that I did not have a husband to pay for mine so my head was cut off in all of them. So much for the Christmas card. At least I didn't have a punctured lung. Best wishes to your friend.

 
Try a Spanish Albarino. Affordable, crisp, light, dry and designed for seafood.

Here's a little more information:

"The Albariño grape is the mainstay of wine production in the Rías Baixas denomination in northwestern Spain, representing 92 percent of its plantings, or roughly 5,000 acres. History suggests that Burgundian monks from the Abbey of Cluny who came to Galicia at the invitation of Alfonso VII of Asturias in the 12th and 13th centuries brought the Albariño grape to Spain from France. This has led to the theory that this aromatic variety is related to Riesling or possibly Petit Manseng, but no genetic connection has been established. The most probable assumption is that Albariño is indigenous to Galicia.

Albariño is a late-ripening, moderately cool to warm climate variety with small, conical clusters of small, loosely knit, spherical berries. Though fairly vigorous, the vine is low-yielding due to the proliferation of pips in the berries. Difficult to bring to full maturity, particularly in the areas where it is cultivated, the grape is high in sugar and potential alcohol and extremely high in acid. The fruit is relatively hardy because of the thickness of its skin, a key contributor to its intense fragrance.

Albariño yields a wine with a seductive perfume of citrus, grapefruit, lemon peel and white peach, with pronounced floral and almond notes. The grape’s high extract carries these impressions onto a vivid palate which remains light, elegant and fresh due to the wine’s elevated acidity. Albariño is very rarely given oak contact, but full malolactic fermenation is typically practiced.

Aside from the Rías Baixas, where Albariño made the case for Spain’s white wines in the world, the variety is a staple across the border in the blend of northern Portugal’s Vinho Verde, in the Minho region. Albariño is also an accessory variety in other appellations of Portugal and northern Spain, and a few wineries in California have experimental plantings."

 
Very true. I first tried that one particular brand in a restaurant, along with linguine and

white clam sauce, and it was perfect. When I bought a bottle, and tried it at home with another seafood dish, it tasted too dry.

 
Just tried Voga Pinot Grigio, it was more affordable than Santa Margherita and pretty darn good!

 
I hope she didn't have to go to a hospital in Cairo. Someday I'll tell you the story

about the "Maasalama Hospital".

 
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